Filter by
Building a Cashless Society : The Swedish Route to the Future of Cash Payments
This open access book tells the story of how Sweden is becoming a virtually cashless society. Its goal is to improve readers’ understanding of what is driving this transition, and of the factors that are fostering and hampering it. In doing so, the book covers the role of central banks, political factors, needs for innovation, and the stakeholders involved in developing a cashless ecosystem. …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-10689-8
- Collation
- X, 96
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
- Call Number
- 332 ARV b
Swiss Finance
How could a small country in the middle of Europe, surrounded by much bigger countries and economic giants like Germany and France and in direct competition with North American and Asian rivals, develop world-class, cutting-edge financial markets? Swiss Finance answers this question, separating myth from reality, by explaining how Switzerland managed dramatic pressures brought to bear on its fi…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-23194-0
- Collation
- XXXVI, 612
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Credit Networks in The Preindustrial World
This open access book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case studies from Europe and the Americas. The book represents a fi rst attempt to coordinate the work of different scholars working on credit networks and aims to explore the possibilities offered by social network analysis for the study of past fi nancial m…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-67117-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
- Call Number
- XIV, 403
Cambodian Dollarization: Its Policy Implications for LDCs’ Financial Develo…
This book is the first study to provide a comprehensive picture of the reality and structure of dollarization in Cambodia, which has been achieving rapid economic and financial development since the end of 1998, when full piece reigned over the kingdom. It uses the micro-level data collected through nationwide surveys conducted jointly by the National Bank of Cambodia and JICA Ogata Sadako Rese…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000955552
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Modern Cryptography Volume 2
This open access book covers the most cutting-edge and hot research topics and fields of post-quantum cryptography. The main purpose of this book is to focus on the computational complexity theory of lattice ciphers, especially the reduction principle of Ajtai, in order to fill the gap that post-quantum ciphers focus on the implementation of encryption and decryption algorithms, but the theoret…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Financial Mathematics and Fintech
- Call Number
- XI, 191
The Future of Financial Systems in the Digital Age
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. The increasing capacity of digital networks and computing power, together with the resulting connectivity and availability of “big data”, are impacting financial systems worldwide with rapidly advancing deep-learning algorithms and distributed ledger technologies. They transform the structure and performance o…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-16-7832-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Public Financial Management and Internal Control
This open access book focuses on the ‘downstream’ element of PFM, that is how public organisations utilise public resources. It argues that improvements in PFM/IC will only flow from a recognition that what really matters is the quality of management. Management reform is an essential precondition to the successful implementation of many new techniques. Only when a managerial capacity exis…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-35065-8
- Collation
- XXIII, 579
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
No precedent, no plan: Inside Russia's 1998 default
The definitive insider's account of Russia's painful transition to a market economy, as told by the IMF's senior man in Moscow at the time.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262289429
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xx, 331 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Empire of Value: A New Foundation for Economics
Translation of the author's L'empire de la valeur."With the advent of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge. Despite the obviousness of their failures, however, economists continue to rely on the same methods and to proceed from the same underlying assumptions. Andr?e Orl?ean challenges the neoclassica…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262323901
- Collation
- 1 online resource (x, 350 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Economics of Risk and Time
This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most utility functions used in financial management are still relatively simplistic and assume a mean-variance world. Taking into account recent advances in the economics of risk and un…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262274043
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xx, 445 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography